Eleazer kempshall



(No Model.)

E. KBMPSHALL.

PEN.

No. 598,780. Patented Feb. 8, 1898.

NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE ELEAZER KEMPSHALL, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR TO THE SMOOTH POINT PEN COMPANY, OF MAINE.

PEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,730, dated February 8, 1898.

i Application filed January 23, 1897. Serial No. 620,410. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ELEAZER KEMPSHALL, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Pens, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention has for its object the production of a new and useful pen; and itconsists in the novel features of construction and relative arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described in the specication, clearly illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this application, in which like characters are used to indicate like parts wherever they occur.

Figure l represents in perspective a pen embodying my invention, the nibs being shown in section in order to illustrate my invention, the section being taken on line l l of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 represents in perspective a pen constructed in accordance with my invention.

Referring to the drawings, inthe embodiment of my invention therein shown selected by me for the purpose of illustration, a represents a pen composed, preferably, of celluloid, although any plastic material may be employed.

The pen is preferably molded into shape by the employment of suitable dies and means requisite for the manipulation of celluloid or the particular plastic material employed. The tangs a of the pen may be formed in the usual shape. The nibs e2 have the general length and arrangement common to all pens, and inA addition thereto are thickened or reinforced at their outer edges 01,3, as shown in Fig. 1. By this construction undue vertical as well as undue lateral movement of the nibs is prevented.

By my invention a pen is produced that is cheap in construction and possessed of a high degree of efficiency. Besides the general advantages of cheapness and utility, the pen possesses the additional advantage of smoothness of point, whereby the point may be moved up as well as down without any tendency of spattering or blotting or catching in the paper. Moreover, the depression CL4 between .the tangs forms a novel reservoir from which the ink will not drop, as in the case of a reservoir on the bottom of the tangs.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way 0f constructing and using the same, without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l, A pen composed of celluloid, comprising a tang and two nibs, each of said nibs being reinforced or thickened at its outer edge, to resist undue vertical and lateral movement of said nibs.

2. A pen comprising a tang and two nibs, each of said nibs being thickened at its outer edge, toY yieldingly resist vertical and lateral movement of said nibs and to form a reservoir on the top of the pen between the nibs.

ELEAZER KEMPSHALL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM QUINBY, ALEX. S. STEWART. 

